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Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Dig... by chucke1992 on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:29AM (#39814930)
Because Microsoft does not have consumer facing products where they have the ultimate control over.
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Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Dig... by progbits on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:35AM (#39814982)
Here's the list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act#Sectors_...

Windows and LinkedIn should be covered.

Maybe there isn't anything that the commission wants to investigate there because they did a good enough job complying. But future can bring more probes.

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Re:EU Launches Probes into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Dig... by PlutoIsAPlanet on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:50AM (#39815116)
Microsoft didn't really have much to change on Windows outside of restoring the ability to uninstall system apps in the EEA and turning things off, and making users aware of such ability.

They don't control distribution of software on Windows (no one uses MS Store), it already has major stores owned by different companies such as Steam, Epic etc that have as much access to the OS that the MS Store does.

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